Washpounder



Patented May 9, I899.

.1. F. WADE.

WASHPOUNDER. (Applieation filed Oct. 14, 1898A d. WASHINGTON n c (No Model.)

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forced downward into the water the water ing the air in the tubes up through openings UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES F. WADE, EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS.

WASHPOUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,711, dated May 9, 1899.

Application filed October 14, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. l/VADE, of Effingham, in the county of Effingham and State of Illinois, have invented an Improved lrVashpounder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a light and simple device especially adapted for operation by hand and which will be effective in operation, as more fully hereinafter set In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of my apparatus.

The numeral 1 designates the main disk, fixed to the under side of which are a series of depending tubes 2, the main disk serving as a sort of cover for the upper ends of said tubes and the lower ends of the tubes being open. 'These tubes are preferably the same diameter throughout their length and are preferably arranged equal distances apart. I prefer to use seven tubes, one in the center and the other six disposed in a circle around the central tube and near the edge of the disk. The disk is provided with an opening 3, coincident with each tube, and inclosing and covering these openings is an airchamber 4, consisting of a disk having its outer edgebent downward to form a flange that is affixed to the upper surface of disk 1. In the center of this air-chamber is a valved opening 5, and rising from the main disk and the air-chamber are standards 6, which are connected at their upper ends by means of a handle 7.

This device is operated as usual with this class of apparatus. The operator grasps the handle 7 and works the device up and down in the tub until the clothes are thoroughly cleaned, no injurious rubbing action on the clothes being required. As the device is fills into the tubes through the clot-hes, forc- 3 and valved opening 5. Then upon the upward movement the valved opening 5 closes, and the clothes are held against the open ends of the tubes by the suction created by Serial No. 693,570. (No model.)

struction that will be inexpensive to manufacture and will be eminently effective in op eration. By reason of the disk-like form of the base-plate and the superposed air-chain ber the structure is rendered very strong, the two plates bracing each other in all directions, whereby plates of very thin metal may be employed and insuring the lightness that is necessary in hand-operated pounders. It is also essential that the openings 3 be smaller in diameter than the internal diameter of the tubes. This is advantageous in that the restricted openings retard the back-and-f'orth impulses of the air, the Water which flows into the tubes upon each downward stroke being thereby more effectively prevented from too rapidly escaping upon the upward stroke and the clothes being held against the open ends of the tubes more securely.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

'In a washpounder the combination of a main disk provided with a series of openings and an operating-handle, means for forming an air-chamber on the upper sideof said disk, this air-chamber inclosing said openings and having an outward-opening valve, and a series of tubes secured at their upper ends to the under side of said plate and open at their lower ends, each tube surrounding one of the openings in the plate and having an internal diameter greater than said opening.

JAMES F. VAD E.

Witnesses:

A. S. LOY, HENRY EvERsMArL; 

